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Topic: Something I saw [#2349] (Read 5350 times)

I don't expect that you'll believe this, but I feel compelled to tell you. I wasabout 18 yrs old. A man at our church who was about 20 was attending a revival atanother church of the same denomination. He asked several of us at our church to goone night & we did. There had been some talk going around about this ministerhaving the "gift of healing" & I'm sorry, I don't recall his name. It was a longtime ago. Toward the end of the service, the minister asked for people in need ofhealing to come forward & stand near the front & several came. Then he asked thosewilling to come & pray with/for them to stand behind them. I came forward withalmost every one else. I was standing to the right of & just a half step behind awoman a little older than me & about 4-5 inches taller than me. People all around mewere praying out loud & raising their hands. I could not help but notice that thewoman next to me had very crooked teeth & it almost looked as if they were crowdedin her mouth, like she just did not have room for them. Also, her lower jowprotruded forward, creating not the most attractive face I had ever seen. Theminister came down the line of people, praying for each one as he came to them. Ihad my eyes closed & was praying, when I heard this cracking-popping kind of soundat my left ear. It surprised me & I opened my eyes & looked around, trying tofigure out what it was. I looked toward the woman next to me & could not believe myeyes. She was praying out loud & I saw her teeth move into line & become as strightas the straightest teeth I had ever seen. Then I saw her lower jaw move back intoplace. Tears were streaming down her face & the people around her got very excited &were praying loudly & praising God. I was so completely shaken & taken aback,having heard of things like this, but never having seen anything like it, I was waybeyond amazed. It was and it remains the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I am 60 years old now, so that was over 4 decades ago. It was a gift from God for me &,I suspect, others. It is something that I know that I know. No one can take it,change it, deminish it or prove to me that it did not happen. There is a God. Hemay not answer all prayers & I don't have an answer regarding that. But this I sawand this I know.

You won't believe me, as I said, but I have told you. That's enough for me.

You want to understand God and the world around you through science and logic alone and, because you cannot come up with a "reasonable" explanation for what they ate when leaving the ark, you dismiss it.

You won't believe me, as I said, but I have told you. That's enough for me.

So you want to fall short of giving us proof, and not what you saw.

A story about when I was playing with a paper boat.

The paper boat was flowing down the street in a stream of water, and went into the sewer. I get on my knees to try to grab the boat and I see a scary clown. You know what that clown told me. WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE!, then a red balloon floated up and went POP! Scary stuff.

I think my story is more believable since I saw it happen in a movie.

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"Great moments are born from great opportunities." Herb Brooks

I edit a lot of my posts. The reason being it to add content or to correct grammar/wording. All edits to remove wording get a strike through through the wording.

If you saw what you remember seeing, I have no doubt it was a part of the con. Please realize that most, if not all, of those healing tent situations are intentional frauds with shills in the audience to create "healings" so that people believe. They passed a hat, yes? That was the point. To get your money. Con men with charisma and several people who, with sleight of hand, make it appear that they've been healed. Seriously. It's been done to death.

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If we ever travel thousands of light years to a planet inhabited by intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave.

You want to understand God and the world around you through science and logic alone and, because you cannot come up with a "reasonable" explanation for what they ate when leaving the ark, you dismiss it.

You were absolutely correct in that judgement because I don't believe a word you said. And why should I? From a standpoint firmly seated in reality the magical and instantaneous realignment of teeth in someones skull is not only improbable but absolutely impossible.

I could not help but notice that the woman next to me had very crooked teeth & it almost looked as if they were crowdedin her mouth, like she just did not have room for them. Also, her lower jowprotruded forward, creating not the most attractive face I had ever seen.

I saw the same thing one time, except I was only 14 1/2 years old, and she was 3 3/4 inches shorter than me. In the case I witnessed God left the teeth exactly as they were and healed the person behind them.

I don't expect that you'll believe this, but I feel compelled to tell you.

It's not really a question whether someone believes you or not, it's the question on whether you can show evidence of it happening. If you can't, you're wasting your breath. We deal in evidence, not hearsay. Well, some of us do, at least.

I AM NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOUR LITTLE ATHIESTFEST. TAKE MY STORY OFF YOUR DEMENTEDSITE. DO IT NOW. THAT IS MY STORY, MY LIFE-- NOT YOURS TO DO WITH AS YOU PLEASE.REMOVE IT. NOW.

spamming will not help you. and didnt you read the fine print or whatever before you sent your email?also, what's an athiestfest?in fact, what's an athiest?

your 60 years of age do you no good old man. you cant even spell atheist

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The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.Why settle for normal, when you can be so much more? Why settle for something, when you can have everything?We choose our own gods.

But your *letter* was either A.)You trying to convince somebody that your god is real via a, I'm sorry, REALLY thin and pretty laughable story, or B.)You trying to convince YOURSELF that your god is real by dredging up a 40 year old memory and then getting a good 'ol feeling of vindication and self-affirmation by sending it to the atheist that shook up your beliefs.

I'm really sorry that the most amazing thing you've ever seen in 60 years of living is a dime-store hustle when you were 18. That's pretty embarassing, even when you're just a clump of anonymous text on the internet. I guess I understand why you'd want it trashed... But magical dental work? Really? Have you ever seen an atom split? It's significantly more impressive.

Didn't we have a poster on here a while back who also said god was a dentist? Maybe there's something to it! My uncle's a dentist--I'll ask him if maybe him and god went to dental school together. The United Church of the Painless Root Canal...

And the dog is awesome! SherB

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I don't expect that you'll believe this, but I feel compelled to tell you. I wasabout 18 yrs old. A man at our church who was about 20 was attending a revival atanother church of the same denomination. He asked several of us at our church to goone night & we did. There had been some talk going around about this ministerhaving the "gift of healing" & I'm sorry, I don't recall his name. It was a longtime ago. Toward the end of the service, the minister asked for people in need ofhealing to come forward & stand near the front & several came. Then he asked thosewilling to come & pray with/for them to stand behind them. I came forward withalmost every one else. I was standing to the right of & just a half step behind awoman a little older than me & about 4-5 inches taller than me. People all around mewere praying out loud & raising their hands. I could not help but notice that thewoman next to me had very crooked teeth & it almost looked as if they were crowdedin her mouth, like she just did not have room for them. Also, her lower jowprotruded forward, creating not the most attractive face I had ever seen. Theminister came down the line of people, praying for each one as he came to them. Ihad my eyes closed & was praying, when I heard this cracking-popping kind of soundat my left ear. It surprised me & I opened my eyes & looked around, trying tofigure out what it was. I looked toward the woman next to me & could not believe myeyes. She was praying out loud & I saw her teeth move into line & become as strightas the straightest teeth I had ever seen. Then I saw her lower jaw move back intoplace. Tears were streaming down her face & the people around her got very excited &were praying loudly & praising God. I was so completely shaken & taken aback,having heard of things like this, but never having seen anything like it, I was waybeyond amazed. It was and it remains the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I am 60 years old now, so that was over 4 decades ago. It was a gift from God for me &,I suspect, others. It is something that I know that I know. No one can take it,change it, deminish it or prove to me that it did not happen. There is a God. Hemay not answer all prayers & I don't have an answer regarding that. But this I sawand this I know.

You won't believe me, as I said, but I have told you. That's enough for me.

As all can see there is plenty of evidence of god healing people, may jesus bless you my brother.

As all can see there is plenty of evidence of god healing people, may jesus bless you my brother.

This is what people call "hearsay" which is defined as: Unverified information heard or received from another; rumor[1] -- so, how is this "plenty of evidence"? You're an idiot <--- plenty of evidence for that.

I AM NOT HERE TO ENTERTAIN YOUR LITTLE ATHIESTFEST. TAKE MY STORY OFF YOUR DEMENTEDSITE. DO IT NOW. THAT IS MY STORY, MY LIFE-- NOT YOURS TO DO WITH AS YOU PLEASE.REMOVE IT. NOW.

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